led coalition downed the syrian government plane over syria what mr lavrov said was that it's actually getting crowded both in the air and on the ground in syria according to moscow with still waiting for an explanation from the u.s. on that downed syrian plane and also one other thing that was said by sergei lavrov is that russia would not like those kind of strikes u.s. air force strikes on the syrian regime planes to undermine efforts to fight against terrorism mr lavrov says that when he speaks to his u.s. counterpart mr tillerson next is going to bring up that issue now speaking of the new wave of anti-abortion sanctions mr lavrov said that once again he believes the u.s. has absolutely no ground for it and it definitely definitely this is something that does not contribute to somehow to the rebuilding of ties between moscow and washington. sure. and also then we were talking. ukraine two wasn't that was an issue that came up and took a bit of time to go through. well. if we talk about ukraine that is of course linked to the measures that i mentioned there are separate sets of san

and this comes just two days after a phone conversation between russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov and his u.s. counterpart rex tillerson during which love are obvious that to have urged the u.s. to exercise restraint in its actions saying that washington must prevent provocations against syrian government troops but it appears that that war didn't have much of an impact the u.s. claims to have information that shows the syrian president is preparing to launch a chemical attack and with this latest development media in the u.s. has also been pushing for more also from the state department to provide an explanation but it appears to be staying tight lipped you just heard evidence to share with us about this potential preparation for the use of chemical weapons is that was an absolutely right and nor would that be laid out because that would be considered an intelligence matter when you leave that it's in your interests you do what you say evidential. intelligence i'm not going to get into that with you but this is a very serious and grave matter it's understandable that concerns are

and this comes just two days after a phone conversation between russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and his u.s. counterpart rex tillerson during which allows for obvious that to have urged the u.s. to exercise restraint in its actions saying that washington must prevent provocations against syrian government troops but it appears that that warning didn't have much of an impact the u.s. claims to have information that shows the syrian president is preparing to launch a chemical attack and with this latest development media in the u.s. has also been pushing for more also from the state department to provide an explanation but it appears to be staying tight lipped you just heard evidence shared with us about this potential preparation for the use of chemical weapons because that was an absolutely right and nor would that be laid out because that would be considered an intelligence matter when you guys believe that it's in your interests you do what you say evidential. intelligence i'm not going to get into that with you but this is a very serious and grave matter it's understandable t

him, lavrov and secretary of state, rex tillerson addressed the press.atch how sarcastic lavrov is, when a reporter asks about comey. >> does the comey firing cast a shadow over your talks gentlemen? >> was he fired? [ talking over each other ] >> you're kidding. you're kidding. >> seth: you're kidding. get out of here. [ light laughter ] you know when they walked out of the room, lavrov said, "why do you let reporters ask questions like this? you should just bang, bang. no?" [ laughter ] "problem over. no more questions. why, why, why, why, why? bang, bang. problem over." [ light laughter ] so what really prompted trump to look for a reason to fire comey? well, obviously, there's the ongoing russia investigation, and on top of that, there is also the media attention comey has gotten for that investigation. according to "the wall street journal," trump grew unhappy that the media spotlight kept shining on the director. he viewed comey as eager to step in front of tv cameras. which may explain why, when the two met in the oval office in january, trump's f

moscow's latest call for washington to avoid any provocations in syria russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov made the request in a phone conversation with his u.s. counterpart and the call was initiated by washington and was the first time the diplomats have spoken since the downing of a syrian military jet by the u.s. just over a week ago the to discuss the need to consolidate

i told my friend sergey lavrov about the need throughout this crisis. we don't want the european. space to see a crisis so the normandy formats with germany we've worked on progress in this issue to put into effect the main steel because there is an urgency to this because the context line is under threat and. the longer this develops more we need normalization of peace with russia. also spoken about bilateral ties between our countries. the peace. talks about the french companies in russia they remain the number one f.t. i country in russia. cultural and whole touristic ties are intense. and i've discussed this role for first thoughts about civil society dialogue the train on dialogue which was announced at first so i announced while two countries and the role of civil society and the attachment to civil rights are crucial. and it's important to put into effect this trend on dialogue. thanks for the exchanges that we've had the very high quality of our relations the length of our exchanges. and for now we have a basis for going into detail into solving the crisis is which crises

this was just prior to lavrov's meeting with president trump in the oval office. the united states tried a couple days before this saying the russians could have the property back if they would give on a proposal of the united states to build a new consulate in st. petersburg. this is something that has been frozen for several years. a sort of previous dispute. on the day when secretary tillerson met with lavrov, he said they would drop that tie. it is not a done deal yet. the americans are still reviewing it. they are seeing if there's any way to put restrictions on these compounds. remove their diplomatic immunity. but they're heading in that direction. >> i read your story four time with a pen and i've marked it up. it feels like this has been reduced to a real estate swap. we'll give you back your house if you let us build a new one in st. petersburg. >> well, that linkage no longer exists. they're saying you no longer to have give us that property in st. petersburg for to us give you back your compounds. the one in new york just outside new york city and the

well as suppress attempts to use chemical weapons by any party to the conflict and as mentioned mr lavrov stressed the u.s. must not carry out hostile actions against government forces we discuss the latest with jamal wakim a professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in beirut he believes the u.s. is looking for an excuse to attack the syrian government. so i believe that this is mainly. not done by the united states to have a pretext because i believe that it's planning to. have an attack on the syrian army at the time when this army is achieving major success in the field. it was able to reach the. spite of. all obstacles set by the united states and against all odds it was able to reach up the. city on the operators and of the same time it's heading towards a date which will be at the end of the united states to have. influence in syria and the north part of the country. guitar's top diplomat is in washington for talks us the clock ticks down on an ultimatum set off by its neighbors in the middle east we've got more in ninety seconds. seems wrong why d

are trying to resolve the differences over syrian foreign minister sergei lavrov and sex rex tillerson spoke by phone in a call initiated by washington it's the first time they've spoken so. as the downing of a syrian military jet by the u.s. more than a week ago the diplomats discussed the need to consolidate a cease fire now in syria and to suppress attempts to use chemical weapons by any party in the conflict so good lavrov also stressed the need for the u.s. to avoid any further provocations against the syrian government like the downing of the plane. from the antiwar answer coalition told us there's no clear line right now among the decision makers in washington on how to proceed in syria we initiative at least from the secretary of state might reflect the fact that there could be a debate going on inside the trump administration and a division of opinion that maybe one position in the u.s. government and then there's another position which incentivizes war which sees war is good business which recognizes the fact that while the u.s. can't win in syria can't overthrow the assad go

and so sergey lavrov i wouldn't want to be the ones i. know we won't go there ok let's go to the gulf of mexico new zealand new zealand have to get something and i'm going to be the underdog some gang mentality is difficult going for. the narrative for new zealanders to qualify for a world there in a quite appalled zone in on it because australia moved from the region and they went into the asian federation and wanted to she's well stranger here as well so there isn't a lot of quality opposition from new zealand supply just the same as i remember last time there will come nothing they do every every game so they can compete and that's why things like the confederations cup and an expanded world very important to get teams like new zealand played against better opposition but mexico play in front of a hundred thousand people in front of the. place what giovanni dos santos and formerly of munches you know i did know of. course they used to the pressure and the expectation of the mexican nation to win that's going to be a victory for me no a

russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov had strong words for the u.s.following his meeting with his german counterpart discussing the crisis in syria r t s peter oliver has the reports we heard to mr love at all of the russian foreign minister making a number of points and making the rather forcefully as well he said that russia would retaliate and would react to any provocations from the u.s. led coalition in syria he also said to the united states and encourage the united states not to look for a pretext in order to launch strikes against assad government forces in syria the main point the russian government is concerned that extremists in syria may attempt to launch some kind of provocation chemical attack in order to try and draw the u.s. into two airstrikes now this is after the united states said that if there was a chemical attack they would launch further attacks themselves against the assad government this is something of course that is deeply worrying to the russian government that was voiced by sergei lavrov we can hear what he said right now

well as suppress attempts to use chemical weapons by any party to the conflict and this mentioned mr lavrov stress the u.s. must not carry out hostile actions against government forces we discuss the latest with jim he's a professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in beirut and he believes the u.s. is looking for an excuse to attack the syrian government. so i believe that this is mainly. not done by the united states to have a pretext because i believe that it's planning to. have an attack on the syrian army at the time when this army is achieving major success in the field. was able to reach the. spite of. all obstacles set by the united states and against all odds it was able to reach our. city on the freighters and at the same time it's heading towards a data which will be a tenth of the united states to have. influence in syria and the north eastern part of. the u.s. state department has released its annual report into countries with the worst human trafficking human trafficking record the report has broken down into different categories two countries

because the thoughts of russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov emily thanks for bringing us up to date on the downing of the syrian jet is the latest in a series of u.s. strikes against forces fighting for the government the u.s. led coalition recently conducted several bombing raids against pro-government fighters in syria in those cases the same justification was used by the pentagon that the pro assad forces have breached a de confliction. right let's discuss this now with middle east analyst risk thanks for joining us on the program these suspensions have occurred before what's the significance of this one to your mind will it affect the situation in syria in the fight against terrorism. indeed this particular incident to is of course a lot more serious and dangerous than the earlier incidents this is the first time an actual syrian fighter jet has been talking at so it is a somewhat i knew kind of escalation and i think the russian response also signals how dangerous it is because the russians as we just heard have announced that they will love put a stop to this so-called perorat

last russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says he is still waiting for an explanation from washington after a syrian military jet was shot down at the city of raka. and u.s. military advisors in afghanistan are finding themselves increasingly under fire from the people they've been training in those stories coming up right now. it's wednesday june twenty first four pm in washington d.c. other types of sweets and you're watching artsy america we begin this hour with a major display of discontent across the u.k. following the devastating grunfeld terror tragedy today hundreds of protesters took to the streets blaming the government for its poor response to the deadly fire one week ago today the twenty four storey high rise caught fire killing dozens of people trapped inside many are still missing and for those lucky to survive now search for new homes british prime minister trista may apologize for the tragedy admitting the government failed in its duty to help those affected the support on the ground for families in the initial hours was not good enough people were left without belongi

well as suppress attempts to use chemical weapons by any party to the conflict on this mention mr lavrov to stress the u.s. must not cardiod hostile actions against government forces. ok let's get further into this now because peter for the former you can boss or to syria is standing by to join us live on the program you're very welcome to the program buster the white house claims the syrian government is planning a chemical attack now i've asked this question before what would the mosque is stand to gain from such an action because it's already winning the war in the ground why would the resort to chemicals. it wouldn't it's totally inconceivable. you would have to be a person of how can i put this kindly limited intelligence to believe that said could even contemplate launching chemical weapons already in april we had evidence of how hot blooded. the american president is you don't have to be a genius to work out that anything that carried a whiff of a chemical weapons would be heavily punished no it is literally incredible that it would use chemical weapons the similarities with a str

as suppress said tempted to use chemical weapons by any party to the conflict and as mentioned mr lavrov stressed the u.s. must not carry out hostile actions against government forces. let's delve into all this a little bit deeper and join jamal wakim a professor of history and international a sions up the lebanese university in beirut always good to have you on the program yet so there we have it the wife's heis claiming that the syrian government is planning a chemical attack now what could damascus gain from doing not if this is true they're winning the war on the ground why resort to chemicals. well i don't believe the syrians owed the city in a g.m. is going to use chemical weapons especially at the time when the american journalist uncovered the truth about the fact that donald trump knew there was no chemical attack in the country. when he led his attack on actual port city an airport so i believe this is mainly. not done by the united states to have a pretext because i believe that it's planning to. have an attack on the syrian army at the time when this army is achieving major s

as suppressing the terms to use chemical weapons by any party in the conflict at this mention mr lavrov also stressed the u.s. avoids provocations like shooting down syrian aircraft ron burkle from the antiwar coalition says there's no clear law in among the decision makers in washington right now on how to proceed in syria. initiative at least from the secretary of state might reflect the fact that there could be a debate going on inside the trump administration and a division of opinion that maybe one position in the u.s. government and then there's another position which incentivizes war which sees war is good business which recognizes the fact that while the u.s. can't win in syria can't overthrow the assad government but by continuing the conflict it strengthens its position following the defeat of isis in other words to have a dog in the fight in the post war sort of reorganization of syria there may be a debate going on in washington or at least your resolution in other words uncertainty about what the u.s. position really should be on the way a lot more trouble for treason may s

as suppressing attempts to use chemical weapons by any party in the conflict and as mentioned mr lavrov stressed the u.s. avoids provocations like shooting down syrian are crossed. the qatari foreign minister is in washington as a saudi deadline looms for the gulf states we have more on what all that means in about ninety seconds. me. in case you're new to the game this is how. the economy is built around. washington washington. voters elected to businessman to run this country business if. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. one thousand minutes into the program welcome back qatar's foreign minister is in washington to meet secretary of state rex tillerson i made efforts to resolve the crisis and loping the small gulf state there's currently a blockade on a thirteen point list of demands until half from saudi arabia and other are of nations who accuse it of supporting extremism ortiz peter all of areas across the story for us this is certainly a deep deep crisis that the whole of that arabian gulf area finds itself in at the moment diplom

i want to welcome foreign minister lavrov to the state department. we can continue our dialogue that began in moscow with the dialogue he hosted from a very broad range of topics. thank you. >> does the comey firing cast a shadow of your talks? >> that same day the russian foreign minister turned up in the oval office, as well. u.s. reporters and photographers were not allowed any access to that meeting. we got these photos of that meeting because the russian foreign minister brought with him a photographer from a russian state run news service. that is how we found out they did let a photographer in there, just not an american one. that is how we found out that the russian ambassador was in on that meeting, too. this is the same russian ambassador who michael flynn concealed his meetings with and who jared kushner concealed his meetings with. i'm not sure we would know the president was meeting with him but the russian state run news agency photographer let loose in the oval office, that guy ended up confurchliirming the news. the white house explai

is something of course that is deeply worrying to the russian government that was voiced by sergei lavrov we can hear what he said right now. the u.s. experts and they say openly thanks to use these claims by washington might prove occasions and shift the blame on so the syrian government. well served a level of also went on to say that once again the russian federation called upon the united nations chemical weapons watchdog to launch a full investigation into what happened in a glib not so long ago that prompted the airstrikes from the well the missile strikes from the united states on a syrian air base he said the investigators from the o.c.p. w. haven't actually been to the scene of the alleged chemical attack in that they were making their assumptions from far away you called on them to be allowed to go there and carry out a full investigation now there was a message also that came from certain gay lover of saying that russia was extremely concerned dates back in the early to thousands the u.s. bush administration had falsified information in order to launch a war in iraq and that th

was found linking the attacks to any russian hacking group and russian's foreign minister sergey lavrov had strong words for the u.s. policy in syria today during a meeting with his german counterpart artie's peter oliver has that report we heard missed a lot of the russian foreign minister making a number of points and making the rather forcefully as well he said that russia would retaliate and would react to any provocations from the u.s. led coalition in syria he also said that the united states and encourage the united states not to look for a pretext in order to launch strikes against assad government forces in syria the main point the russian government is concerned that extremists within syria may attempt to launch some kind of provocation chemical attack in order to try and draw the u.s. into two air strikes now this is after the united states said that if there was a chemical attack they would launch further attacks themselves against the assad government this is something of course that is deeply worrying to the russian government that was voiced by sergei lavrov we can hear w

what does tillerson say that lavrov about possible chemical weapons inside syria, we don't know. the russians seem to be responding in a way to that today. certainly the syrians for their part are taking this as they do with everything else and turning it into own propaganda. dave? >> thank you. >>> okay. a busy news day. the president's travel ban will go before the supreme court next term. what happens in the meantime? we'll break it down next. ahh. where are mom and dad? 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico! goin' up the country. love mom and dad' i'm takin' a nap. dude, you just woke up! ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. "how to win at business." step one: point decisively with the arm of your glasses. abracadabra. the stage is yours. step two: choose la quinta. the only hotel where you can redeem loyalty points for a free night-instantly and win at business. ♪ whoa that's amazing... hey, i'm the internet! i know a bunch of people who would l

the cease fire agreement with the government of forces and russia's role in resolving the conflict lavrov pointed out the importance of a joint effort in defeating terrorist groups operating in the country so it is just . the launch of an interest syrian dialogue to ensure the truce and the creation of deescalation areas as it was suggested within the framework of the a stunna process steps to promote a peaceful life that will help switch from the confrontation between the government president forces and the armed opposition to cooperation including cooperation in the fight against terrorism to london now where victims of last week's deadly high rise inferno may have been exposed not only to smoke and flames but also highly toxic gas that's according to the latest expert analysis of the tragedy at the green felt how are officials now say the cladding on the outside of the highrise may have given off talks of the hydrogen cyanide gas as believe the toxic gas was released by burning the insulation from that cladding so far seventy nine people are confirmed dead and many others still missing

odd that the russians are cutting off this de confliction channel but you heard foreign minister lavrov saying that we need to have more communication i mean even if they don't think the americans are listening to them i still think it's wrong for the russians to cut off that communication we need to be talking more not less that said shooting down that syrian plane was by no standard acceptable under international law it cannot be considered self-defense when there is no authority there from the syrian government or the security council for u.s. forces to be operating in this area at all does this unfold in front of the american public or the world what the actual policy is going to be in syria is this a shift no i don't think so to start with anybody can figure out what the actual trump policy in syria is i'd love to hear it we hear there's reports in the media that there are unspecified civilians at the white house that the n.s.c. who want to dig in deeper to syria people at the pentagon who are resisting it it's unclear is our goal defied diane is it still to overthrow assad is it t

as suppressing attempts to use chemical weapons by any party in the conflict others mentioned mr lavrov stressed that the u.s. avoids provocations like shooting syria let's go live to havana with vs you have charlie and his thoughts on what might be here. so the white house claiming it has got intelligence pointing to a plan chemical attack by the syrian government must be said to mass what would damascus possibly going boy curry. on its own soil again we've asked this question so many times over the same obligations of the commode over the years again very valid why would it it do. it beats me given one thing you know intelligence the so-called intelligence that somebody can soften would vote as a pretext for dignity reaction has often been politicized or needs not necessarily very accurate i don't think they have access to the inside of the syrian regime to be dumb enough to have to find otoh are there determining it don't also have the intellect act and what it means they will use i am more concerned of this has been part of this turf war that's going on when you know the americans i

of the cease fire agreement with the government forces and russia's role in resolving the conflict lavrov pointed out that the importance of a joint effort in defeating terrorist groups operating in the country. that is used in. the launch of an interest syrian dialogue to ensure the truce and the creation of deescalation areas as it was suggested within the framework of the it's done a process steps to promote the peaceful life will help switch from the confrontation between the government regiment forces and the armed opposition to collaboration including cooperation in the fight against terrorism. according to be associated press american forces in yemen have reportedly been involved in the interrogation of detainees in prisons where torture allegations are rife argues middle east correspondent policy we're has the story the united arab emirates and allied yemen i forces have allegedly been running a network of some seventeen secret prisons across southern yemen and one in eritrea now the indications include military bases at least one if port even private villas and a nightclub they a

secretary of state rex tillerson talking yesterday by phone with his opposite number in moscow, sergei lavrov. >> reporter: clear if the issue of chemical weapons preparation was in the conversation. we have heard from the russian -- from vladimir putin's spokesman this morning saying russia strongly condemns the use of chemical weapons. so they appear to be putting some distance between themselves and whatever the assad regime is doing. this would be a major step if assad was to use chemical weapons again and could lead to another strike, as we saw. 59 cruise missiles back at the end of april. >> that would be certainly. ups the ante for that potential putin/trump meeting at the g20. thank you, sir. >>> other big news yesterday. not just the health care bill. the president's travel ban will go before the supreme court next term. what happens in the meantime? we'll break it down next. >>> welcome back. key elements of the president's travel ban could take effect in a few days, taking an unexpected approach, the u.s. supreme court is allowing some people from six muslim majority countries to b

the american secretary of state rex tillerson spoke today with russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov, and according to an official russian statement, lavrov's message to tillerson was clear -- the united states needs to stop bombing pro-assad military forces in syria. quote -- strongly disagreed with the u.s. strikes against pro-golf forces, calling for specific measures to prevent similar incidents in the future. this request from the russians comes after at least three air strikes by the united states against pro-syrian forces. we have plenty of news to get to tonight. >>> coming up, how the president's tweeted threat about tapes of james comey set off a chain of event that led to this moment. >> the president surely nose whether he tapes me and if he did, my feelings aren't hurt, release all the times. i'm good with it. >>> more than 19 million people tuned in to watch his testimony with wildly different views as to who came out on top. we'll look at how both sides are declares victory. you're live in "cnn newsroom." i. love, grandpa. ♪ let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes t

information with president trump which is a concern because of the foreign meetings with minister lavrov and ambassador sergey kislyak of russia. it's not just that, it's also tracking. it's metadata, it's being able to say the president spoke to this leader at this time. the president discussed x, y, z, with this particular leader of this country. you can really kind of create a trail and understand the policies based on those phone calls alone. so there's a lot of concern in the national security community, the intelligence community about the nature of these phone calls and how, you know, he's just kind of going with the flow and treating it as an average citizen and not the president of the united states. >> michael crowley i never cease to be amazed that the amount of news that breaks on our watch, 11:00 eastern time, washington, june 1st, reuters, president donald trump's administration on thursday asked the u.s. supreme court to revise his ban on travelers from six muslim majority nations after it was blocked by lower courts that found it was discriminatory. your reaction. >> well

i mean, vladimir putin says for trump to have a meeting with lavrov and kislyak and the next day he doester he fires his fbi director. vladimir putin, you know, works through michael flynn to get, you know, his intelligence collection facilities in the united states reopened. voila. that's occurring. sanctions being lifted is just a matter of course. i don't think that donald trump has any intention of crossing vladimir putin on that point. >> do you think -- i guess is there any way for the -- there's never going to be an accounting here, right? so the question is what would be a way forward in this bilateral relationship which is actually an important one? >> now you're asking me to solve world peace. i think from my perspective, it's always trying to tamp down some of the hysteria and that's what i've done in some of my writing. we're the two biggest nuclear powers in the world. we don't want to push to the level where we are back in a cold war scenario. the united states obviously needs to make sure that it is known that certain actions won't be -- >> tolerated. >> yeah. and aren't a

said sergei lavrov strongly disagreed with the u.s. strikes against pro-government forces, calling for specific measures to prevent similar incidents in the future. this comes after three recent u.s. air strikes against pro-syrian forces. a vocal critic of the russian president l.p. vladimir putin i calling for a nationwide protest. >> she has been blacklisted by the state controlled media, so he's getting his message out on youtube. >> reporter: the show is about to start and oxana is execing final details under the watchful eye of her boss. >> the idea was he wanted a special youtube channel with live streams. >> reporter: the channel has grown from nothing to more than 300,000 subscribers in less than three months. that's on top of the 1 million that subscribe to the original youtube channel. >> is it important for your country? >> i feel somehow that people need it. they are sick and tired all these years without any possibilities to be heard. >> reporter: the movement came of age on march 26th with protests in almost 100 cities ac

sergey lavrov says he hopes that pragmatism will prevail at the talks between president vladimir putinrump. those leaders will meet on the 's g-20es of next week summit. lavrov added he hopes washington and moscow agree, quoting it is more efficient to ensure national interest in concert, not so low. global news 24 hours a day powered by 2700 journalists and analysts in 120 countries. this is bloomberg. julie: let's give you a recap of today's market action. we wrapped up the week, the month, and the half-year here. of julythe fourth weekend celebration tuesday. , i will give you a quick show of the performance here. gains. 14% less of a positive story for the u.s. dollar making it two straight quarters of losses. that is the bloomberg dollar index. losses for the course date of 8%. i can give you a look at oil as well. obviously a real choppy quarter. as you can see higher overall for the last several sessions, trading at $46 a barrel. we did not expect it to be there. scarlet: not after what happened at opec. producers continuing to trail -- drill. regulator isng investing loans to h

sergey lavrov said in a press conference, he believes everyone understands in trump's administration these are illegitimate actions. moscow has reportedly discussed with the trump administration lifting of construction restrictions it imposed in 2014 on the u.s. consulate being built in st. petersburg, but the latest reporting is rex tillerson told lavrov and kislyak, there is no linkage in negotiating the fate of the consulate there and compounds here. >>> two members of the senate judiciary committee are requesting an investigation of potential undisclosed meeting between jeff sessions and russian ambassador kislyak. the meeting took place on the sidelines of donald trump's april 27, 2016 foreign policy speech back in washington, d.c. selgtsz sessions volunteered in his senate confirmation hearing he did not meet with russian, but at the republican convention last year it was revealed, sessions said it was part of his official duties. nor did he include the meetings on his security clearance form. cnn was first to report congressional investigators were looking at the meeting at th

russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson talks syrian crisis settlement that story right after the break. they. are. not. going after the liberation they just lawyer from the old. doctor tonight for me it's like medicine it's like a cancer there all the stress that the nears the surrender redacted tonight is a show where you can go to cry from laughing about the stuff that's going on in the world as opposed to just regular crying we're going to find out what the corporate mainstream media is not telling you about how we're going to filter it through some satirical comedic lenses to make it more digestible that's what we do every week part. hitting radical comedy news like redacted tonight is where it's out. there. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not. on a me it's built around core. separation from washington the washington post media the media. and voters elected business to run this country business because. last it's not business is business like it's never been done. to

they're going to have to change that position and that is precisely what i think foreign minister lavrov is saying exactly they want him to and then now they're getting so much backlash from you know politics as usual in washington that they can even negotiate with russia what and in fact before he came into office president tom said that he certainly wanted to you know better relations well there is a problem politically i think you're right that the political atmosphere in washington in the united states generally has shifted so far to the whatever you want to call it hysteria hysteria about any contact with the russians that there is much greater reluctance now on the part of the white house to do that but i think he's going to have to overcome that. i think we are now at the most dangerous point in the confrontation between the united states and the former soviet union or russia since the cuban missile crisis there's been nothing like this since the cuban missile crisis and that's why there must be really a very sharp reconsideration of u.s. policy in syria and we know that you know

this was an illegal exappropriation, and a couple days later when prime minister sergei lavrov was here the americans said, we won't them anymore, and since then the americans have been working on specific proposals to give the russians about the conditions under which to give them back. the russians said today when moscow said tillerson told them they would said them specific proposals that they haven't gotten anything yet that they're still confident they're going to get their compounds back. >> yang: ali, talking about russian activity, let's turn to you. your reporting found that u.s. intelligence officials were finding russian diplomats turning up in odd places around the country, right? >> this has been kind of a growing concern of what my understanding is, the f.b.i. over the last year and a half. russian diplomats within the u.s. who were supposed to follow pretty stringent tribal rules. they're supposed to notify the state department when they travel anywhere outside of their posting. the russian diplomats effectively disregarding their travel rules and turning up in places tha

interviewaid in a tv and was reportedly said to sergei lavrov after meeting in the white house that he had been under huge pressure because of the russia investigation and that had now been relieved. well, that looks like donald trump fired james comey because of russia. and it now emerges donald trump himself is under direct investigation. he seemed to confirm it himself, saying " i am being aggravated for firing the fbi director." so donald trump by his own , communications, by every utterance on twitter, in interviews, seems to have taken the waters that he is swimming in into much deeper waters, a much more treacherous water. jane: john, even if supporters are saying just put down the twitter, even if he does very briefly, is it too late? has the damage been done? john: well, a considerable amount of damage has been done. look, he's been under advice from everybody under the sun. stop tweeting about this. if you look at the restrained statement that was issued by the white house on the night that the special counsel was appointed almost exactly a month ago, it was, you know, we jus

from a from a bomb dropped by the syrian government this is what russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov had to say on the subject. of the should use. for the prohibition of chemical weapons has been absent unintelligibly it refused to go to the scene of the incident and did not provide any information yesterday who's. convinced that son in which was apparently found was dropped from the they don't know where the son came from and through these months tensions have been inflamed. now the most important thing that's missing from the report is if you read through the seventy eight pages at no point did they ever say who was responsible for the attack the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the un's official body to investigate these kind of matters has no idea and really cannot reach a conclusion about who carried out the attack now despite that that hasn't stopped the leaders of the united states figures in the u.s. state department boris johnson in the u.k. from saying that they know for a fact that the syrian government is to blame let's take a listen to what they've sa